Those are the adventures of Mr. Fimbulmyrk, in bushcraft and blacksmithing, mountainbiking and hiking, reenactment, writing, singing, dancing, stargazing and having a piece of cake and a coffee. Pray have a seat and look around you, but be warned - the forest´s twilight is ferocious at times.
Dienstag, 25. Juni 2024
Trying to make a decent knife with a 6cm blade
Politicians happened. Course they tried to push it through during bread and games, aka the European Football Championship. Of course.
I talk about the novelty offensive weapon act in Germany. We all know how well it works to criminalize decent citizens in order to get the real bad boys. If it will come to pass, you need a legal reason to carry any fixed blades above a length of 6 cm in public in Germany. Criminals will of course follow all novelty developments and study the law and there will be no more knife crimes. Just like in Denmark (I have heard they have lifted all bans on knives two years ago, because it didn't work at all) or the UK. There is a #petition going on at the moment against it. If you are from Germany, feel free to sign. https://www.change.org/p/petition-gegen-die-versch%C3%A4rfung-des-waffengesetzes-f%C3%BCr-mehr-freiheit-und-sicherheit
If you are from outside of Germany, you can write an Email or letter to the Ministry Of Homeland Security, in order to protest the upcoming restrictions on your travels.
Anyway, it is also a Challenge and I accepted it. I had forged a neckknife from monster damascus that Matthias Zwissler had given to me and put on a handle from a historical German #jagdnicker knife that Mr. Henning Ritter from Hubertus Solingen had gifted to me long ago. Shortened the handle, sharpened it and then sharpened it some more and made a sheath for it.
Actually it is obviously very much limited as to what it can do, but it works surprisingly well when snacking or even whittling smaller projects. Actually I need to warm up a bit to it, but it is a nice little evening stroll pocket or neckknife for the neighbouring woods. Not catastrophical , at least. Actually, making it was fun, and there are a lot of fond memories connected to it.
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